On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 23:45 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> On 08/04/2012 07:28 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 17:15 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> >> That's going to make testing Wheezy CD images annoying. Anyone else see
> >> this problem? I tried logging in under GNOME and GNOME Classic - the
> >> warning didn't show again but the UI didn't show any visible change, it
> >> appears that only fallback/classic is available. Can someone using GNOME3
> >> in Wheezy verify that this is expected behaviour?
> >
> > This is expected in the absence of 3D acceleration, which is not yet
> > supported in qemu so far as I know. VirtualBox is supposed to support it,
> > but a standard installation presumably won't pull in the necessary
> > paravirtual drivers in the guest.
>
> So we require 3d acceleration for a default install?
I think what you'll see without it is a one-time warning. I could be
wrong since I haven't done a fresh installation yet.
> I think that is even more insane than what recent windows versions require.
3D acceleration recommended, but with a fallback mode available? Isn't
that exactly the same?
> Can we please have a sane
> default desktop for people with older hardware? Maybe just chosen in d-i,
> depending on the hardware.
I believe joeysel now selects Xfce as the default desktop.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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